Shock Mansion: What’s up Joel, how are you?

Joel Madden: Good man, how are you?

Shock Mansion: Yeah I’m really well thanks dude. To kick this off, can you give us an idea of what a normal day in the life of the Madden Brothers is like when your on tour?

Joel Madden: Usually we are on some kind of tour bus, you get up whenever you get up and depending on what kind of night you had depends on what you need to do that morning. Shower, find a bathroom, finding coffee on tour can be a little bit of a challenge sometimes. Me and my brother train a lot, we have been doing that for the last 2 years so we’d get up every day and train. We’d run, hit the pads, boxing and that kind of stuff. Usually after all of that it’s the evening and we start to get ready for our show, have a drink or something, eat and hang out and get ourselves into show mode. After the show, party all night.

Shock Mansion: What did you do to put food on the table before your music career took off?

Joel Madden: I worked pretty much any job I could, I lost a lot of jobs because I was always having to take off with the band for shows. I’ve painted houses, landscaping, I worked in shipping and receiving unloading trucks for big bookstores like Borders. That was pretty much the worst job I’ve ever had. I remember when I was working that job I would show up to work at around 7am, work til 4pm and then go straight to another job, waiting tables, that was the shittiest time of my life. For some reason the bosses I had were really hard on me, but hey, whatever. Back at that time me and Benji were living in an apartment together, we were trying to not only pay rent, but help our mom a bit, pay for the band and record demos, shit like that.

Here’s a sweet video montage of Bam and the cKy crew in Australia a few weeks ago. Check it out below.

Via: Bamargera

Follow Professor Green around for the day as he performs at V Festival. Unfortunately for everyone it was raining but it didn’t seem to slow the crowd down. There’s a classic moment at the end when they find out that Peter Andre is actually next door…oh, and don’t forget to check out our own interview with Professor Green HERE!

If by chance you’ve read any news or listened to anyone talk about anything you know that Charles Taylor, the American-educated, former president of Liberia, is on trial at the Hague for war crimes.

Primarily people are taking note because model Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow offered up contradictory testimony as to the nature of the former president’s awkward generosity—mostly related to the giving and receiving of blood diamonds.

Andy Capper, editor of Vice UK and VBS producer, traveled to the Hague to report on the goings-on when he recalled that during his excursion into the bowels of Liberian ghettos for the Vice Guide to Liberia he’d conducted an interview with Charles Taylor Jr that was left on the cutting-room floor.

Jr is a rapper, aka Bentman, and his mother and Sr are no longer married. Andy thought we should pull the piece out of mothballs and revisit it.

Via: VBS.TV

Complex’s Lifestyle Editor Bradley Carbone caught up with Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord. They have a chat about their outfits, rapping, and Yo Landi lays down a nice little freestyle, all the while they sip Moët and smoke cigars. Pretty zef.

With this clever way to promote a new song, Riot !n Paris have made their new film clip an interactive series of YouTube videos. The first video tells a short story, then let’s you decide what you want to happen next. This is an awesome 2010 version of those choose your own adventure books I read as a young buck. Watch the video below and try it out for yourself.